Running Masochist and Orange Shrimp and Broccoli

I sure hope that title doesn’t get me a lot of mail that freaks me out.  It doesn’t take much.   The following quote made me wonder, are marathon runners and ultra runners masochists? – or maybe we just like control in any form we can get it? By Derek Clayton in “The Masters of the Marathon” I don’t think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering.  You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it and – ultimately- overcoming it. What’s going on at AppleCrumbles that is making us happy?  [...]